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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Early Corinthian Kotyle Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 112
- Date
- Ca. 615-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.039
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle?
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W5 - W10 / S114 - S116 *99.8
- Findspot
- found in 1964
- Description
- Late in EC. A tiny wall fragment, probably from a miniature kotyle. Animal frieze below a band of black glaze. Feline facing to right, the body preserved from the shoulder to the haunch. The tip of the tail and one rear leg also remain. There are incised blobs and dots in the field. The incision is quick and careless, but delicate for so small a kotyle. Four curved incisions are used to represent the ribs, two for the haunch, a straight line for the stomach, and curves for the rear leg and paw. Added red appears on the rib area and the stomach of the feline. He stands on a glazed ground line with the tip of one ray visible below. Glaze: exterior, black to dark brown and glossy; interior, chocolate brown and slightly uneven in application. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine, with a thin wall. Pinkish buff. Closest Munsell no. is 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.025; P.W. 0.023; Th. 0.002
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Spain 1, Madrid 1, III.C., pl. 2, no. 10 (E 11), pyxis cover; PayneNC pl. 35:2, no. 882 (inv. Berlin 4507), MC pyxis.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS